Oracle Raises $10 Billion in Year’s No. 2 U.S. Bond Sale

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Oracle Corp. sold $10 billion of notes in the second-largest dollar-denominated corporate bond offering this year to help finance the purchase of Micros Systems Inc.

The issue included $2 billion each of 3.4 percent, 10-year, fixed-rate bonds and 2.3 percent securities due 2019, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company also sold $1 billion of three-year and $750 million of five-year floating-rate notes, the data show.